Attraction of petrels to artificial lights in the Canary Islands: Effects of the moon phase and age class

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-310

  Rodríguez, Airam ^a   Rodríguez, Beneharo ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic perturbation; Atlantic Ocean; Light pollution; Moonlight; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOON; MORTALITY; NESTING; SEABIRD; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; HYDROBATES PELAGICUS; HYDROBATINAE; OCEANODROMA CASTRO; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS;

EID: 63049134875     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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